Yakovlevskoye Bolshoye

Yakovlevskoye was a village in the upper Volga country, first mentioned in a document of 1484. Ivan III had granted the estate to the military commander Semyon Peshkov-Saburov after his service in the Kazan campaign of 1469, and it passed through the family by inheritance. In 1561 his grandson bequeathed the village to the Ipatiev Monastery at Kostroma. During the latter half of the eighteenth century it became known as Bolshoye Yakovlevskoye, or Great Yakovlevskoye.